Chavismo’s number two, Diosdado Cabello, denied this Monday that the Venezuelan regime’s candidate was the opposition leader and candidate for the presidency of Colombia for the Historical Pact, Gustavo Petro.
During a televised speech, the deputy of the National Assembly of Venezuela rejected the statements delivered by the former president, Álvaro Uribe, in which he assured that Venezuela had contributed to what he called an “electoral fraud”, because in the middle of the Consolidated scrutiny by the National Registry of Civil Status, the leftist coalition reached three more seats in Congress, becoming the majority force in the Senate.
“Let Uribe come out saying that the government that set up the registrar, that monitors it, and that they take out the copies, they did fraud from Venezuela. Oh my God. And fraud for what? Petro is not our candidate. Petro has declared himself an enemy of Chavismo. Our only candidate in Colombia is the Colombian people, who suffer, who have been attacked, persecuted, killed, who have no voice.”, asserted the leader of the Venezuelan regime.
In the statements delivered by the former president, Álvaro Uribe, on his Twitter account, in which he attached images of alleged documents from the Ministry of People’s Power of Venezuela, which bear the title of Directorate of Vulnerability Analysis and Intelligent Studies, in the referring to the National Electoral Council (CNE), indicated that there had been an interference in the legislative elections.
The former president and natural leader of the Democratic Center published these images after calling for the results of the legislative elections in which the governing party suffered significant losses in both chambers to be ignored. Uribismo lost between the 2018 elections and the scrutiny revealed last weekend 22 seats in Congress, of which six are seats in the Senate and 16 in the House of Representatives.
The former president’s accusations of Petro’s links with the Venezuelan regime are reiterated, last November, in the middle of an event, former President Álvaro Uribe spoke about what would be a possible arrival of Senator Gustavo Petro to the presidency of Colombia, where the statements of the Antioquia politician pointed to the candidate as the most intelligent of all the characters of the leftist wave in Latin America.
“Colombia may have the worst neocommunism in the region. Dr. Petro is much more intelligent than Chávez, Dr. Petro is much more intelligent than Castillo, than President Fernández of Argentina, Dr. Petro is much more intelligent than Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua. That is why I have said very reflectively that the teacher was not Chavez, it was Petro who taught Chavez,” he said. Uribe Vélez, to the regional media outlet Telecafé.
To which Petro replied on that occasion: “Oh my God! And what will neocommunism be? Could it be that this is how they define taking the State away from the mafia? Could it be that this is how they define giving the conditions to produce to millions of people and not to five? Could it be that this is how they define poverty and inequality to be reduced? ”, The leader of the Colombia Humana party published on his Twitter account, after the former president’s statements.
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